Posted by: Cor

And now for something completely different.

Thanks to the new blood here on the Beatery, we’ve experienced a recent influx of some great progressive and drum and bass music. And while it’s a wonderful and refreshing change of pace, it has also has left me itching to get some good ol’ house music up here. Enough so that I went back and dug up a old set that even I hadn’t heard in nearly a decade.

I recorded this one while living in the deep house epicenter known as San Jose. It’s just a casual swim through some waters I don’t normally tread. I just wanted to get a few songs out of my system that I couldn’t fit anywhere else, and then I didn’t really circulate the mix to anyone. I suppose you could call this a DJ Cor rarity. It’s fun to hear it again. Really marks a moment in my early DJ “career.”

DJ Cor - A Dip in the Deep End (right-click to download)

Posted by: Cor

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another “retro” set. Today’s is another one of my own: Rhythmic Trip from 2003… which I believe marks my first and only use of the cliché ‘music-as-journey’ metaphor. This was also my first venture into “nu skool breaks” territory, though to be honest it really doesn’t venture too far. I’ve never been able to take those aggressive wobbling basslines for 70 minutes straight. Anyhow, it has all the basic trademarks of any of my old sets…

- A few mixes I’m still proud of. (The first two.)
- Some tracks I still love. (The last one in particular.)
- A token pop reference (The Madonna remix.)
- At least one track I wish I hadn’t put in there. (The Madonna remix.)

All in all, a very solid set, and one I’m happy to finally have up here. Enjoy, and have a great weekend.

DJ Cor - Rhythmic Trip (right-click to download)

Tracklist pending (I have to look all these old records up.)

Posted by: Cor

It’s Friday, which means you can count on the Beatery for another set of booty-shakin’ beats to kick start your weekend. For this week’s retro set I have an old live set of mine from almost three years ago. This is the second in the Standford Sessions series*, recorded on the Big Love show on KZSU 90.1, Stanford radio. Despite the roughness of the set (it’s the radio, I was a bit nervous) this is a great one, working it’s way from kitschy electro house to progressive breaks at the very end. I still really dig the mix of Put your Hands Up for Detroit and White Horse at the beginning… wish I hadn’t smeared my way into that one. You two diehard DJ Cor fans out there may note a lot of similarities between this and No Excuses, which I recorded a few months later. Sue me, tracks cost eleven bucks back then and I was working at startup. **

Hey, speaking of Stanford Sessions, you know who also has a sweet backlog of radio mixes? Our own Beatery resident, Mr. Matt Haegen. I bet if you ask real nice he’ll put them up. For now, enjoy this one from way back in 2007, when vinyl was still around, when Trentemoller was the new Timo Maas, and when Mylo ruled electrohouse for a few minutes before disappearing into complete obscurity.***

Cor - Stanford Sessions II (4/23/07)(right-click to download)

* I’m working my way backwards here. For the third installation, click HERE.
** Soundflavor, R.I.P.
*** Seriously, where IS that dude? Anyone seen him?

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Posted by: Cor

This set has nothing to do with muppets, I just thought the name Electric Mayhem, shamelessly ripped-off from the band pictured above, was an appropriate title. Seriously, with the number of sets I’ve recorded in my time I should know that I’m headed for trouble when I try to include ALL my recent favorites regardless of how well the songs work together. In this case, I couldn’t decide between my latest banging electrohouse or funky breaks tracks, so naturally I included both. What resulted is the set below: a chaotic hodgepodge that ricochets back and forth between the two styles like a bowling ball on one of those kiddie bumper lanes… which isn’t to say it’s bad. Like bumper bowling, or the muppets for that matter, it’s a wild and unpredictable good time that the kids are sure to enjoy. Turn it up loud, and keep funkin’ that chicken.

DJ Cor - Electric Mayhem (right click to download)

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